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Why I hate the corporate music industry
A loving and helpful article for all my good friends at the record companies as well as the government internet media regulation commitees et cetera.
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Why I hate the corporate music industry
A loving and helpful article for all my good friends at the
record companies as well as the government internet media regulation
commitees et cetera.
The world is full of whiny,
still-progressing-into-adulthood-teenagers. This is the first thing
you should pull from my essay if not anything else. Now on with
it.
I am pissed, that is for sure. Sitting down to a rousing evening of
fruit snacks, dr. pepper, online conversation, programming, and my
music. After so many rounds of repeating my music, I chose the
interesting and always fresh route of internet radio. "Secret
Agent Radio: The only soundtrack for Spys and PIs alike."
Delightful, delectable, mood music for around 11:44 at night. To my
dismay, when clicking the station, no signal appeared. For better or
for worse, it turned out my internet connection was runinng. I
checked their site, somafm.com, and the following caught my eye:
"Killed by the RIAA. June 20, 2002.With CARP royalties of $500 a DAY, SomaFM cannot continue broadcasting.
Yes, you read right. $15,000 a month, $180,000 a year (well, based on last month extrapolated over the next 12 months, we would have to pay $176,541 in RIAA royalties. "
Damn. That sucks, no radio tonight. Further examining the site, I
visited Saveinternetradio.org
which was basically their banner, anti government regulation
of internet radio site. This really pissed me off. Although it's not
the first time.
Want to hear something disgusting to me? The thought of 15 different
music companies fighting over royalties, touting their own
proprietary sites, and buying up every copyright of any decent
recording artist known to man. Ok, now to something more refreshing.
I beleive I would/'ve be a good candidate for mp3.com or napster.
This is why. Unfortunately because of some moral prejudice inside me,
whenever I download a certain amount of mp3's from anyone artist or
album, I go and buy the cd. So yes in fact, I use the file sharing
services/radio to find out that, in fact, yes I really don't like
Eminem's album, and that through the internet radio, Congo Natty an
otherwise unknown to record labels drum and bass artist is great. I
want to now buy his album, and don't want to buy Eminem's.
OH MY, REVELATION, suddenly things are clearer. The record labels
make money off of advertising big artists like Eminem, and they could
care less if you like him or not so long as you buy the album. Could
this be the reason why they choose to advertise him, but not advocate
trying his music? I'm not meaning to suggest anything of course, and
if you are reading this and are a high up administrative official of
the Recording Industry Artist Association, of course I don't actually
beleive what I'm saying...
Let me bold the following, so if you skipped over the above
because it had too many words at too small a size, you will read
this:
First thing is first. Royalties for free radio
stations, especially ones that play hard to find materials and
unknown artists are absurd. Cut the beuraucracy.
Second, by trying to try proprietary services, and not advocating
other public file sharing methods, the RIAA is only delaying the
inevitable, free music. They could be snatching the opportunity to
provide features, etc that wouldn't be available on free mp3's that
would lure customers towards this.